The criticism is that he's light of 40 and has no judicial experience.
He also served in special capacities where judicial experience was needed, such as boundary disputes between states.
Is it important for a chief justice to have had judicial experience?
He was also faulted as lacking legal and judicial experience.
However, the traditional rules of evidence reflect considerable wisdom and judicial experience.
They wanted to 'give him judicial experience,' so I'm told.
In 1954, on the Brown court, none of the justices had prior judicial experience.
"You bet," the president said Wednesday morning when a reporter asked him whether he would consider potential nominees who did not have judicial experience.
Wallace had a long record of community service and extensive judicial experience.
"This is the best judicial experience I have ever had," she said.